Sun Crams the Entire Internet In a Box

OK, so the entire Internet is already in the box on your desk, and possibly most of it fits inside your phone, but Sun’s (s JAVA) partnership with The Internet Archive means that 3 petaflops petabytes of archived web pages is also stored in a shipping container. Yes, I have this thing for data centers in a box, but if a group is going to corral the bits and bytes required to generate a historical record of the web, cramming them into a shipping container rather than a large data center seems like a compact (and efficient) way to do it. Check out Sun’s tour for a closer look.

“Internet in a box” was the name of a company in Seattle that offered exactly that in 1993. Allowed you to get started on the net. The company I worked for invested in them. Internet offerings have come a long way in a short period of time

What a bullshit headline. Not even Google has any idea what the “ENTIRE INTERNET” looks like. The Internet Archive is a light sampling of what the Internet looked like ten years ago. It’s a PR stunt for a crateload of Sun servers and that’s all.